Anime

Adult Swim’s Toonami anime block revealed highlights of its May 2025 programming lineup, which will bring Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War and Blue Exorcist: Kyoto Saga to the network for the first time, starting May 17.

After an unidentified plant from outer space invasion, Rita finds herself trapped in a time loop, forced to relive the same day over and over again. With each loop, she learns. She fights. Her memories and experiences sharpen her skills, turning her into a formidable warrior. Yet, the endless cycle of death and solitude begins to wear her down. Then, she meets Keiji. “I’ve been repeating this day too,” he says. Two lost souls, trapped in an endless war. Could their meeting change fate?

Lazarus premieres 4/5 @ midnight on Toonami on Adult Swim, next day on Max.

Crunchyroll announced today at CCXP in Sāo Paulo that it has acquired the North American and select international theatrical rights including Brazil for the dark epic fantasy omnibus movie Attack on Titan: THE LAST ATTACK, as well announcing as a flurry of new anime series and seasons of returning shows for its streaming lineup.

Crunchyroll also confirmed several titles coming soon to its streaming service:

• Nyaight of the Living Cat
• Magic Maker: How to Make Magic in Another World
• Even Given the Worthless “Appraiser” Class, I’m Actually the Strongest
• Unnamed Memory Season 2
• Grisaia Phantom Trigger
• Farmagia
• Teogonia
• Fire Force Season 3
• ZENSHU
• To Be Hero X

The legend of Goku continues when the English-language dub of Dragon Ball DAIMA arrives on Crunchyroll starting on January 10 in select territories. Based on an all-new story and character designs from author Akira Toriyama, this original anime series from Toei Animation commemorates the 40th Anniversary of Dragon Ball.

We sat with the legendary creator of Cowboy Bebop who talked about his new show LAZARUS coming to Adult Swim in 2025.

In addition to the 6-month break for the anime, ‘One Piece’ has just announced a two-week break for the manga.

The reason for the break is that Oda wants to get involved in the second season of the live-action and wants to spend a few days supervising Netflix to make sure that everything is done as well as in the first season.

MONDAY, OCTOBER 7

• Nina the Starry Bride @ 7:00 AM PT (Same Day Simuldub)
• Ron Kamonohashi's Forbidden Deductions Season 2 @ 7:30 AM PT
• Yakuza Fiancé: Raise wa Tanin ga Ii @ 7:45 AM PT
• Natsume's Book of Friends Season 7 @ 10:00 AM PT
• Seirei Gensouki: Spirit Chronicles Season 2 @ 10:30 AM PT
• After-school Hanako-kun @ 11:00 AM PT
• Love Live! Superstar!! Season 3 @ 6:00 PM PT

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8

• A Terrified Teacher at Ghoul School! @ 7:30 AM PT

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9

• The Do-Over Damsel Conquers the Dragon Emperor @ 6:30 AM PT

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11

• Dragon Ball DAIMA @ Time TBA

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12

• DEMON LORD 2099 @ 9:30 AM PT

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 13

• Shangri-La Frontier Season 2 @ 2:30 AM PT

MONDAY, OCTOBER 14

• Arifureta: From Commonplace to World's Strongest Season 3 @ Time TBA

In what will likely go down in history as one of the saddest developments in anime, Adult Swim‘s long-delayed anime adaptation of Junji Ito’s Uzumaki went from critical acclaim to utter disappointment in two episodes because of a staggering drop in animation quality. Although io9 reached out to Adult Swim to inquire about why the show experienced such a perplexing dip in quality as reactions emerged yesterday, the anime’s executive producer has broken his silence on the whole ordeal in a now-deleted social media post.

In a BlueSky post (first spotted by Comic Book Resources) that was later screenshotted and spread online, Uzumaki producer Jason DeMarco revealed that Adult Swim was, to put it mildly, "screwed over" with the Ito anime.

"It’s fine, we knew this would happen. I can’t talk about what went down, but we were screwed over, and the options were A) not finish and air nothing and call it a loss, B) Just finish and air Episode 1 and leave it incomplete or C) run all four, warts and all. Out of respect for the hard work we chose C," DeMarco wrote in the first of a series of posts. "After waiting so long, it makes sense people would be mad. Unfortunately, I can’t tell them who to blame it on… but someone is definitely at fault here, and we all just had to do our best when things imploded. Maybe others would have made different choices. We did the best we could with what we had."

He continued: "But again, a lot of people worked very hard on this show, and I didn’t think the actions of just one or two people should be the reason it never saw the light of day. Maybe that’s the wrong choice. I truly don’t know. But those people have a right to be annoyed and disappointed. I’m glad you are digging it."

Voice actor Doc Harris (birth name Gilbert Auchinleck) died at Vancouver General Hospital on Saturday morning. Harris had minor surgery last month. He was 76.

Harris began his career in radio broadcasting in Canada in 1966. He was known by names such as "Gil Harris" and "Doc Holiday" before he took on the moniker of Doc Harris.

One of his most iconic roles was as the narrator for the original Ocean Studios English dub for the Dragon Ball Z anime and the first few movies. He voiced other characters as well for the Canadian-produced dub. He was also the voice of Grogar in the My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic animated series. Harris had roles in other anime, shows, and games such as Monster Rancher, Mobile Suit Gundam: Encounters in Space, Aegis Defenders, Hulk: The Video Game, and Captain N The Game Master.